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I am pretty sure the author of that blog post has not done so. Everytime I used pandoc or similar tools to convert text from one format into another, I had to p
by wirrbel 8y ago
I am pretty sure the author of that blog post has not done so. Everytime I used pandoc or similar tools to convert text from one format into another, I had to put in a lot of effort to manually fix up things. Its not realistic for most cases. To-latex conversions are actually among the more developed paths, and all instances I can think of (pandoc, sphinx, dblatex) produce kind-of-weird output.
If you cannot stand latex but want to produce print-quality PDFs, Apache FOP (with Docbook) probably is your best bet. Otherwise your kind of bound to introduce a heavily manual processing step between writing and formatting for print.
- fiddlerwoaroof 8y agoI wrote 3 years of papers in LaTeX (ancient philosophy, so minimal math). I generally did markdown>pandoc>xelatex. I never really had to touch up the final output (except for a single script I made that removed some incorrect line breaks): I would just use inline LaTeX as needed to get things like figures into the output.
- newen 8y agoI wrote my thesis (200 pages) in LaTeX and I cannot imagine not having to do the final touch ups in LaTeX. You tend to get lots of line break issues, figure location and orientation and spacing issues, vertical spacing issues, that you have to touch up to make it look nice. It sounds incredibly impractical to do your writing in markdown and then use pandoc to convert to LaTeX, do dozens of touch ups, and then get your final output, send to your reviewers, get your reviews and recommended edits, do more edits (okay, now I can't go back to markdown anymore and redo the whole conversion process), more touch ups, rinse and repeat a few dozen times with your reviewers. Might as well stick with LaTeX in the first place.